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March 25, 2026

Scientists in Geneva successfully transport antimatter

  • The antiprotons were suspended in a vacuum inside a cryogenic box and held in place by supercooled magnets during the three-hour exercise.
    • By JAMEY KEATEN
    Associated Press

    GENEVA — Scientists in Geneva took some antiprotons out for a spin — a very delicate one — in a truck, in a never-tried-before test drive that has been deemed a success.

    If this so-called antimatter had come into contact with actual matter, even for a fraction of an instant, it would have been annihilated in a quick flash of energy. So experts at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, had to be extra careful when they took 92 antiprotons on the road for a short ride on Tuesday.


     
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